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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted July 19, 2018 10:42 AM
Having watched that clip again, I'm betting that the color has held up a little better than we'd expect, as, whnever i try to film with my digital FLIP video cameras, it always seems to make the color look red, even when it's a perfectly good color print and i have to work like the dickens just to get the color (thru color tinting) back to the actual color as close as possible, (I did that on my STAR WARS scope super 8 you tube video).
So it might well have better color than we see on that video.
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Carter Bradley
Expert Film Handler
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From: Greensboro, NC, USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted July 19, 2018 12:31 PM
This Walt Disney home movies 50' reel was available for order along with a number of other promotional items from WDHM, 500 South Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA, 91521. It was marketed to retailers who carried films. The purchase price of this film was $7.77 while all other items were free of charge with an order. The full line of "merchandising aids" from WDHM included complete catalogs, Spanish only catalogs, posters/hang tags/window stickers, envelope inserts, advertising line art, mini rack to display 6 films, 4-tier floor rack for 80 films, 2-tier counter rack for 60 films, 1-tier counter rack to display 25 films, and the coveted "demo film in color and sound." "Profit center pre-packs" of films selected at random by WDHM could be ordered: 25 film assortment (sound and silent) $448.75, 25 film assortment (sound only) $808.75, 60 film assortment (sound and silent) $1,072, and 100 film assortment (sound and silent) $1,700.00.
[ July 20, 2018, 03:29 AM: Message edited by: Carter Bradley ]
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Osi Osgood
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posted July 20, 2018 11:48 AM
For they're time, though, they were of superior quality. Of course, here in the U.S. we didn't know that later effects of that dreaded eastman, but we were getting straight from the archives, prints of beloved cartoons classics!
The only thing that annoys, many years later, is that WDHM's released, in many cases, "edited" versions of thier cartoons.
I guess this was a way of maintaining a value on the full length versions for the future, but the editing was done in such a way that you usually didn't notice what was taken out unless you knew the original cartoons in full.
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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